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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1956
Page
5
Cloudy with scattered snow flurries and near 30s expected Sunday. monitoring for Monday with similar trends. City legal and traffic actions include suspensions for a teen driver for driving with more than three in the front seat, several auto damages judgments, and numerous small claims and court dates listed across Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas.
Disobeying a crossing signal after a Crandic train collision at Ninth Avenue and Second Street SW leads to charges for FE Hale. FrLaming Room dining special invites reservations. Franklin school PTA opens house for grades 10 to 12 on Thursday, Nov 24 at 7 30. Richard A Wise fined 24 dollars for disorderly conduct at a Cedar Rapids theater. Paul V. Wilson law office remains closed for weeks. Funeral services for Thomas M. Cashman to be held 10 30 Monday in Salt Lake City. Marvin Grant charged with failure to yield at D Avenue and Sixteenth Street NE after accident with David Bellew. Gerald Johnson reports lost 10 bail near First and Third streets NW. contact EM 2974.
Iowa City detectives report checks totaling between 3500 and 4000 dollars passed in Cedar Rapids Anamosa and Vinton with one 1040.87 payment for a 1953 car at Swab Motor Co. Investigations trace the pair Gartland and spouse tied to past false check cases including a 1951 sentence and a 1000 down payment on a diamond ring. The couple married in August near Monticello and lived in Oxfam before Mechanicsville.
Multiple death notices list Mrs. Martin E. Feiden of 2412 C avenue NE Cedar Rapids, Hazel Feiden born 1906 in St Joseph Missouri, church memberships and services set at First Lutheran. Additional obituaries include Earl Sutsier Eutsler of 839 Fourteenth Street SE Cedar Rapids with service plans, Earl Wutsler a painter at Cue College, Guy W Curtis longtime Cedar Rapids resident and Wilson and Company retiree, and Mrs Fred Burnett of Colfax—burial plans and survivor lists.
Workers labored in a giant snow removal effort across storm swept eastern Great Lakes areas. Western New York faced biting cold and squalls while most of the belt reported light flurries. Snow removal used tanks bulldozers and snowplows to restore highways and normal operations.
Four chain reaction accidents involving 13 vehicles were reported Friday afternoon in Cedar Rapids. Two people were injured including Mrs. Ernest Dunkel H Dundee who was hospitalized with hip and knee injuries after a rear end collision on the Coe College approach. Wright was fined for improper vehicle control in one incident.
The Hev Ernest Worden of Ottawa Kansas has accepted a call as pastor of Cedar Christian Church succeeding Rev Fraser Thomason who resigned to take a pastorate in Des Moines. Worden begins Cedar Rapids ministry next Saturday and will not preach until December. Dec 2 service marks the annual women’s day with speaker Mrs Jack Oliver of Cedar Rapids. Worden is a Johnson Bible College graduate with graduate work at Phillips University Enid University of Oregon and has held posts in Martinsburg Hot Springs Creston Ta and Springfield among others. He has served in ministerial associations and has roles with Disciples of Christ boards as well as education and evangelism committees. He and his wife have two children including a married daughter in Creston and a son serving as YMCA secretary in Houston Texas.
Multiple obituaries and notices report deaths in Cedar Rapids and surrounding areas. George W. Graham died in a Cedar Rapids nursing home at 76. Other burials and funeral plans are listed, with ties to Washington high school, Cedar Rapids Business College, and Linwood Cemetery.
A Cedar Rapids police report details two breakins to motor vehicles with no apparent losses. The article also describes a lengthy legal case about eye treatment injuries and announces auditions for the 1957 Jaycee Jamboree at the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce and Coe College auditorium.
Four vehicles on Third avenue and First street SE were involved in a chain collision. Darrel Marks stopped for a light near Blairs Ferry road NE when his car was rear‑ended by Earl Woods who also halted. Woods’ car was struck by Anna Teachout, whose vehicle then collided with Alexander Batchelor’s car. Woods was knocked unconscious and treated at St. Luke’s.
Police chased a wild herd of cattle that broke from Arthur Beadek's Edgewood Road property and roamed Cedar River areas. Three missing cattle returned to their property after about two hours, with more seen near the King's Crown Plaster Company on First Street NW before being penned.
The November term jury panel for Tann county district court is dismissed for another week. Clerk Arthur Aximear reports two criminal cases set for that Monday have been continued due to an attorney's illness. The panel must report again Monday Dec 4. Public Finance Service Mitel sues Garold and Anna Pryce for 320.99 in a promissory note claim. Springville Co operative Elevator sues Earl Hennessey for 281.25 in an account suit.
Refugees describe bitter winter and relentless fighting in three Hungarian mountain pockets as a Moscow backed occupation clamps down. Bread loaves bear pro refugee slogans while families flee toward the border under threat from Soviet troops. Humanitarian aid has reached 14 countries including the United States, with day by day refugee flow near ten thousand.
Newark police arrested John R. A. Den, 38, after he caused a fire alarm incident on Thursday claiming he needed help for a sick friend. Police report details his statement and subsequent holding.
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